The House of Withering Light

When Eleanor Vale inherits Rosewood Manor, she expects a decaying estate, distant servants, and the usual burdens of a dead relative's property.

Instead, she finds a house that seems to listen.

Set deep on the moors, Rosewood is cold, watchful, and full of locked histories. In the west wing, a forbidden gallery holds portraits that do more than resemble the dead. They preserve them at the moment of terror, drowning, burning, breaking, and worse. At the center of the collection hangs an unfinished painting of Eleanor herself, created long before her birth and waiting for her return.

As whispers in the corridors grow louder and old journals expose the work of Augustus Wren, a painter who bound blood, soul, and canvas into one monstrous practice, Eleanor uncovers the deeper truth beneath the manor. Wren was not the source of Rosewood's evil, only the artist who gave it lasting form. Beneath the house and out on the moor, something older still waits, a corrupted force tied to the Vale bloodline, the standing stones, and the rituals that first twisted the land into hunger.

To survive, Eleanor must descend through hidden galleries, crypt chambers, and ancestral lies, confront the dead her family helped imprison, and stop the unfinished portrait before it becomes her final prison.

The House of Withering Light is a gothic supernatural horror novel about cursed inheritance, haunted portraiture, family guilt, and the terrible price of trying to possess beauty, memory, and the soul itself.